“Why don’t we just respond with a “Conservative” Facebook?”
The object is not for conservatives to have a place to go. The object is to get the conservative message as it is - not as the left THINKS it is - out. As long they control the platform they will never allow any challenge to their faux moral high ground. That means, they will eventually win. They know this. It is one of the only true things they know.
Think of the leftist you know. All of them are incredibly narrow minded yet claim to be tolerant. They all function in group think mode while loudly trumpeting that they are free thinkers. None of them is able to form an independent thought yet they claim to be enlightened. They call good evil and laud evil as progressive.
You cannot argue with that kind of indoctrinated mind by simply going away. They will never change until they have to defend their ideas. C. S. Lewis, in the book, Letters to Malcolm, wrote that “it is easier to pray for a boor than to go visit him” The same is true of your leftist friends and family. They purposely make you uncomfortable while decrying you making them uncomfortable. They want you to go away and to be able to blame for it.
Leftist are sophist. They believe that the only truth is who controls the definition of words. You can’t just go away. You have to confront them with the absolute truth that their World View is a lie. To do that you have to keep them from controlling, to use their term, the narrative. You also have to interact with them.
They will never have to defend their ideas while they control the medium of delivery. This is not a simple issue of “Free Markets eventually winning” this is deeper than that.
So, contrary to what some on this list “Face Book is Evil” Ping List say, I believe you need to be on Face Book, or Twitter or Whatsap and to confront, in a loving way where possible, the lies your relatives, and friends believe.
But, to do that you better really know your stuff.
Just my thoughts.
Thanks for your carefully framed thoughts on this subject.
Before you arrived here in 2012, Free Republic, in many ways, really was a political antidote to Facebook and the other Leftist media.
Tragically, the energy and the impact of Free Republic began to crumble around 2008.
Conservatives have had no viable national leadership since Newt Gingrich was destroyed around 1996 by dozens of false ethics charges and GOP treachery and torpor.
In 2008, just two years after Free Republic crushed the Bush-McCain Amnesty, the GOP decided to nominate the same traitorous McCain for president. Without question, McCain was the single worst presidential candidate in my long life time.
For the next 8 years, Conservatives had to endure the Outlaw Administration of Barack Obama, even though we worked tirelessly to elect GOP Congressional majorities that never raised a finger to stop him.
2015 brought the candidacy of Donald Trump, which has completely fractured Free Republic in ways that no issue or no candidate has ever fractured it before.
Finally, I think the most important media defeat that Conservatives have ever faced has been the 2016 defection of Matt Drudge to the anti-Trump center-left.
Since the 2000 election, Drudge had forced the Democratic Party to play defense on more national issues than all the other Conservative activists combined.
There is simply no way to replace Drudge, and no way to measure the political damage we have suffered since he walked away.
Even if something were possible to control the censorship and propaganda ability FB has in America, the fact that he has 2 billion users world wide pretty much makes him unstoppable. As the biography explained, "No one can imagine what he is planning next".